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Rising Crude Oil Price
Dents Canada's Shares

Canada's shares got battered around the edges as the price of crude oil continued to rise, but other markets in the Americas soldiered on to slight gains.

Oil psyched out investors on Wall Street, closing up a whopping 65 cents at $52.67 on New York Mercantile Exchange after touching $53 a barrel midday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.1%, or 114.52 points, to 10125.40 and the Nasdaq Composite Index fell 22.51, or 1.1%, to 1948.52.